buskin

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A soft boot reaching to calf or knee height.

   “She, having hong upon a bough on high / Her bow and painted quiver, had unlaste / Her silver buskins from her nimble thigh […]”

2. isim A pontifical vestment in the form of a silk stocking, sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold thread, reaching to the base of the knee and worn over one’s regular socks but under episcopal sandals.
3. isim A type of soft calf- or knee-high boot that laces up the front, sometimes featuring open toes or thick soles, worn in the Greco-Roman world by hunters and horsemen, as well as by actors in Athenian tragedy.
4. isim Tragic drama; tragedy.

   “Such an undertaking by no means benefits the low-heeled buskin of modern fiction.”

5. isim An instrument of torture for the foot; bootikin.